A discussion on Palestinian struggle for freedom and statehood hosted by veteran Palestinian journalist Ruba Husari. In each episode the host interviews academics, historians and experts in their fields on Palestiine, Israel, and Zionism history and explores the path to an independent Palestine.
Professor Ussama Makdisi: Israel's "Existential" Wars 1982 vs 2023
Ussama Makdisi, professor of history at the University of California Berkely and auhtor of several books on the history of the Middle East on Israel's modus operandi in wars, and why it never learns its lessons. Despite the 42-year gap between the invasion of Lebanon and that of Gaza, the parallels are striking. Its 1982 invasion of Lebanon resulted in an 18 years occupation and ended with a withdrawal leaving behind, Hezbullah, an opponent that is fiercer than the PLO it sought to eliminate. The results of Its invasion of Gaza, despite the greater scale of horrors it committed, is unlikely to end with a victory or with an end to resistance.
Follow Ussama Makdisi on X: @UssamaMakdisi (https://x.com/UssamaMakdisi)
Listen to his podcast: Makdisi Street (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFTdVJ--8nOMXl9O2RqCHvQ)
Read more from Ussama Makdisi:
- Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab Worldwas (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520385764/age-of-coexistence), 2019 (University of California Press).
- Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Misplaced-U-S-Arab-Relations-1820-2001/dp/1586486802), 2010 (Public Affairs).
- The West's Love for Israel Erases the Middle East's Real History (https://jacobin.com/2023/11/western-philozionism-palestine-israel-history-colonization-antisemitism-philosemitism-racism) in Jacobin Magazine, 2023
24 Jun 2024
AbdalJawad Omar: Resistance vs Terrorism, a Matter of Definitions
Veteran Palestinian journalist Ruba Husari interviews Bir Zeit university lecturer Abdal Jawad Omar on armed and non-armed resistance across one century of the Palestinian national movement to Oct.7, 2023. He analyses where Hamas and its military wing emanate from, the conflation of resistance and terrorism, why resistance against Israeli occupation is hope for Palestinians, what has the aftermath of Oct 7 achieved so far and whether it was worth it.
Follow Abdal Jawad Omar on X: @HHamayel2 (https://x.com/HHamayel2)
Read more from Abdal Jawad Omar:
The Question of Hamas and the Left (https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-question-of-hamas-and-the-left/)
Gaza is Showing the Rest of Palestine the Truth of Struggle (https://mondoweiss.net/2023/07/jenin-the-fight-over-the-capacity-to-resist/)
Jenin: The Fight over the Capacity to Resist (https://mondoweiss.net/2023/07/jenin-the-fight-over-the-capacity-to-resist/)
Nelson Mandela in his memoir "Long Walk To Freedoom" :
“If peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.“
7 Jun 2024
Professor Leila Farsakh: The case for a one democratic state in Palestine
Palestinian-American academic Leila Farsakh, professor of political science at the Univeristy of Massachussets Boston, discusses dismantling Zionism, abandoning the two-state solution and the case for a one democratic state in Palestine.
Further reading:
Leila Farsakh: The Question of Palestinian Statehood (https://www.bostonreview.net/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4f4d7be1b8-ourlatest_6_5_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-4f4d7be1b8-41236906&mc_cid=4f4d7be1b8&mc_eid=69641c72af)
Leila Farsakh (ed): Rethinking Statehood in Palestine (https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50501), Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition
15 May 2024
Professor Susan Akram: Palestinian nationality, citizenship and re-nationalizing stateless Palestinians
Palestine Uncensored host Ruba Husari interviews Professor Susan Akram (https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/susan-m-akram/), of Boston University school of law and an expert on international human rights and refugee law on Palestinian nationality and "Jewish" nationality and the issue of citizenship from a historical and legal aspect. The episode explores how Palestinians who were recognized as Palestinian nationals and citizens at the collapse of the Ottoman Empire became stateless as a result of laws and orders decreed by British and Israeli authorities.
To read more:
- Susan M. Akram: Palestinian Nationlity and "Jewish" nationality: From the Lausanne Treaty to Today in Rethinking Statehood in Palestine (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520385627/rethinking-statehood-in-palestine)
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